That explains the story of a guy that was found to have been hoarding hundreds of thousands of menthol cigarettes. He knew it was coming and what did they do? They took them from him. Just like the government here will take whatever you're hoarding away from you in the interest of 'public safety'.

When I worked at the cancer stick factory, keeping the methols and non-menthol stuff separate was about they cared about. Apparently a drop of menthol can ruin an entire batch of non-menthols, and the equipment is all but impossible to clean enough after a batch.

Mugato:farking tobacco lobby. I'm surprised they didn't have the inventor of the e-cig whacked before they were even introduced.

This is a bad move even for regular tobacco. The precedent has been set and I'd expect to see a gradual tightening of regs until all tobacco products ultimately receive bans. The gradual strangulation of that which you hate is the bureaucratic way.

xoxo:I'm not a smoker so please forgive a dumb question: What's the deal with menthols? Do they give smokers minty fresh lungs??

They have a minty taste. They do not have a minty smell. Not by a long shot. Good for cokeheads (the mint taste comes through the drip) and anyone who doesn't like the taste of tobacco* cigarette smoke, but still wants to look "kool."

*Cigarette tobacco is so damned processed I have a hard time calling it tobacco (American Spirits and Nat Shermans excepted)./Switched to e-cigs years ago//Still remembers

xoxo:I'm not a smoker so please forgive a dumb question: What's the deal with menthols? Do they give smokers minty fresh lungs??

Basically like smoking with a Halls lozenge in your mouth (which probably makes no sense to a non-smoker). Back when I used to smoke, I thought they tasted like garbage. If I was bumming one and my buddies only had menthols, I would accept that I wouldn't be smoking that night. I think certain people are just more attuned to that particular flavor combination.

impaler:Nope, they extract it from tobacco. It's also were the nicotine for the gum and patch come from.

Yeah, but it's recycled. they get the tobacco and nicotine from butts in gutters, and smoker stands outside of office buildings, and from urinals in rural bars, and from discarded patches and wads of ABC nicotine gum.

I've smoked exactly two cigarettes in my life, the first was a Pall Mall unfiltered when I was 16....basically felt like shiat for a couple hours after and that was that. Second one was a Kool Menthol (might have been a "100", don't remember), to this day, I still get nauseous just smelling minty stuff....nasty shiat!